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Michael Clapsis admitted creating a fake WIFI.

Perth dad who created ‘evil twin’ Wi-Fi did so to access pictures of women

Palmyra man Michael Clapsis duped people into giving him their email addresses and passwords so he could hack intimate photos.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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Daryl Maguire faces a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment.

Daryl Maguire found guilty of misleading corruption watchdog

The former Liberal MP is facing up to two years in jail after being found guilty of giving misleading evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

  • Amber Schultz
Samimjan Azari shields himself with a chair as the gunman opens fire in the Turkish restaurant.

Gangster has survived four murder plots: How Samimjan Azari became Sydney’s most marked man

For years, Azari has worked his way up the pecking order of the notorious Alameddine crime network. It could cost him his life.

  • Riley Walter, Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
Tegan Wagner, pictured in 2006, during the trial of the Pakistani gang rapist brothers.

‘Anonymity is not acceptable’: Gang rape survivor calls for alleged offenders to be unmasked

Tegan Wagner survived a gang rape in 2002. She says despite their age, the alleged teenage perpetrators of a recent attack in Sydney’s south-west should be identified.

  • Amber Schultz
Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex.

Trials set to be aborted amid damage to NSW’s busiest court complex

Sydney’s Downing Centre court complex is expected to be shut for at least four weeks after a burst water main caused flood damage to part of the building.

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Erin Patterson.

Erin Patterson trial recap: What happened on each day of the death cap mushroom case

Patterson has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after allegedly serving poisonous mushrooms in a beef Wellington for lunch.

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Defence counsel Colin Mandy, SC.

Erin Patterson murder trial day 35 as it happened: Accused mushroom cook’s defence barrister Colin Mandy, SC, finishes closing statement, reminds jury the ‘standard is proof beyond reasonable doubt’

Defence barrister Colin Mandy, SC, has concluded his closing address in Morwell’s courtroom four. The jury will return next week.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson
Patrik Weiss was found dead in his Lockridge home. Picture: Nine News Perth/Supplied

‘Depraved, monstrous’ killer jailed for life over Perth father’s murder

Patrik Weiss, a sports massage therapist for the West Coast Eagles, was senselessly killed by a man who wanted to experience what it was like to take someone’s life.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was already on bail, and will appear in court again in May.

Perth boys jailed over series of violent ‘premeditated’ attacks on gay men

Five men aged between 19 and 33 were lured to secluded areas, thinking they were meeting a person from dating app Grindr, before they were attacked by the gang.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Ezra Holt
Erin Patterson.

Erin Patterson murder trial day 34 as it happened: Defence barrister Colin Mandy tells jury accused mushroom cook wanted to be close to in-laws; may have reacted differently to consuming to poison

Patterson’s barrister will continue his closing address in Morwell’s courtroom four on Thursday, after the judge warned jurors to expect a long direction from the bench next week.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola and Erin Pearson

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